AMC announced today that they have renewed Preacher
for an expanded 13-episode second season, which will premiere in 2017.
"Preacher is a special television program and
we’re eager to share with fans the rest of this wild first season and, now, an
expanded second season," said Charlie Collier, president of AMC,
SundanceTV and AMC Studios. "What Sam, Seth, Evan and the entire creative
team have achieved in bringing Garth Ennis’ graphic novel to the screen is extraordinary.
We look forward to more time with these unforgettable characters be it in
Heaven, Hell, Texas or beyond."
This Thursday night,
AMC will air a Preacher catch-up/DVR marathon of the first five episodes of the
current season, starting at 9:00 p.m. and running through 2:35 a.m. Friday
morning. The sixth episode appears on AMC this Sunday in the show’s regular
timeslot at 9:00 p.m.
Based on the popular
cult comic book franchise of the same name, “Preacher” is a supernatural and
darkly comedic drama that follows a Texas preacher named Jesse Custer who is
inhabited by a mysterious entity called Genesis that gives him the power to
make people do whatever he commands. Once this power attracts the attention of
two mysterious angels, Fiore and DeBlanc, Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend
Tulip, and an Irish vampire named Cassidy are thrust into a crazy world
populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Preacher was
developed for television by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg ("This is The End," "Superbad," "Neighbors") and showrunner Sam Catlin ("Breaking Bad").
The Sony Pictures Television-AMC Studios co-production
is the #2 new series on cable this year among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 and
is currently averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode, including 1.9 million
adults 25-54, in Nielsen live+3 ratings.
The series stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer,
Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl
Brown as Sheriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek
Wilson as Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Eugene/Arseface.
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